Sec. 120. Cyber preparedness
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Title II of the Homeland Security Act of 2002 is amended— in section 210A ( 6 U.S.C. 124h )— in subsection (b)— in paragraph (10), by inserting before the semicolon at the end the following: , including, in coordination with the national cybersecurity and communications integration center under section 227, access to timely technical assistance, risk management support, and incident response capabilities with respect to cyber threat indicators, defensive measures, cybersecurity risks, and incidents (as such terms are defined in such section), which may include attribution, mitigation, and remediation, and the provision of information and recommendations on security and resilience, including implications of cybersecurity risks to equipment and technology related to the electoral process ; in paragraph (11), by striking and after the semicolon; by redesignating paragraph
(12)as paragraph (14); and by inserting after paragraph
(11)the following new paragraphs: review information relating to cybersecurity risks that is gathered by State, local, and regional fusion centers, and incorporate such information, as appropriate, into the Department’s own information relating to cybersecurity risks; ensure the dissemination to State, local, and regional fusion centers of the information described in paragraph (12); and ; in subsection (c)(2)— by redesignating subparagraphs
(C)through
(G)as subparagraphs
(D)through (H), respectively; and by inserting after subparagraph
(B)the following new subparagraph: The national cybersecurity and communications integration center under section 227. ; in subsection (d)— in paragraph (3), by striking and after the semicolon; by redesignating paragraph
(4)as paragraph (5); and by inserting after paragraph
(3)the following new paragraph: assist, in coordination with the national cybersecurity and communications integration center under section 227, fusion centers in using information relating to cybersecurity risks to develop a comprehensive and accurate threat picture; and ; and in subsection (j)— by redesignating paragraphs
(1)through
(5)as paragraphs
(2)through (6), respectively; and by inserting before paragraph (2), as so redesignated, the following new paragraph: the term cybersecurity risk has the meaning given such term in section 227; ; and in section 227 ( 6 U.S.C. 148 )— in subsection (c)— in paragraph (5)(B), by inserting , including State, local, and regional fusion centers, as appropriate before the semicolon at the end; in paragraph (7), in the matter preceding subparagraph (A), by striking information and recommendations each place it appears and inserting information, recommendations, and best practices ; and in paragraph (9), by inserting best practices, after defensive measures, ; and in subsection (d)(1)(B)(ii), by inserting and State, local, and regional fusion centers, as appropriate before the semicolon at the end. It is the sense of Congress that to facilitate the timely dissemination to appropriate State, local, and private sector stakeholders of homeland security information related to cyber threats, the Secretary of Homeland Security should, to the greatest extent practicable, work to share actionable information in an unclassified form related to such threats.
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